Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:57:57 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: kwc@world.std.com (Kenneth W Cochran) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Managed vs unmanaged NICs Message-ID: <199908101357.GAA15857@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:19:27 EDT." <199908101319.AA10469@world.std.com>
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>A somewhat more "general" Q: > >Why might/would I want a managed NIC anyway? > >Also, Intel (for example -- I'm sure the other NIC >manufacturers, too) has lines of "desktop" & "server" NICs, both >managed & unmanaged, except the server NICs are all "managed." The only significant difference that I know about in the Pro/100 management adapter is the wake-on-lan capability, although I don't have the updated programming data for the 82559 chip so there could be other improvements. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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